Wooded Landscape

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landscape

Lodewijk de Vadder became a master in Brussels in 1628 and depicted the Fort de Soignes in spontaneous atmospheric vistas of sunken roads running between sand-dunes overgrown with heavy trees.The immediate character of his depiction of nature is suggested by his loose brush strokes. The present painting depicts a wooded landscape with figures on a path, and a village beyond.

About the Artist

Lodewijk de Vadder

1605 – 1655

Flemish painter, draughtsman, engraver and tapestry designer. He was received as a master in the Brussels Guild of St Luke on 15 May 1628, probably, like his brother Hubert de Vadder, after an apprenticeship to his elder brother, Philippe de Vadder (Coeckelberghs). Lodewijk is best known as a landscape painter, although he also executed landscape engravings and drawings. He was granted a privilege to make tapestry cartoons by the Brussels city magistrate in 1644. In this capacity he worked mainly for weavers such as Jean Courdijn and Baudouin van Beveren. The latter referred to him as the best landscape painter in the country and in 1644 paid him 1000 florins for a series of designs of the Story of Diana and Pan.

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